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13 Mar. 1810
Clerk of the Hanaper? In what Court? The Court
to the grimgribber of which the word Hanaper belongs is
the Court of Chancery. But to this Alienation Office
it may also belong to have in it a Hanaper, in modern
English, a Hamper. Why not? For among the 8
Sinecure Offices here stated as included in "the establishment
of this Office, is hat of a "Master in Chancery:
and a gentleman of designated by the hame of Chr. Flood
is designat stated as being this Master in Chancery:
as having been so ever since the 1st of March 1793: and
as receiving £111,12s: neat for being called so.
By the official appellative Master in Chancery as
expressive of the office of an Officer belonging to this
Office a question to which we are naturally bid is there then any
and what superior Officer with the silk of Lord Chancellor
or at any rate Chancellor belonging to this office: but
of this enigma to this doubt no solution is to be found.
£2,000 paid in one year only, and that year by this
time 50 year ago at that time viz. 20th July 1807 about 47 years ago,
and this £ in a Report dated in June 1808 this £2,000 placed
in a Column purporting to contain "Total annual Gross
Amount of Salaries and Fees! A Fee it surely could
not have been: of its having been granted on the score
of Salary there are no indication is to be found. That is as
the day in question viz. same day in the year 1760 to
this Mr Church a sum of £2,000 was paid, is clearly
enough expressed: but out of what fund whether is not
expressed at all any more than on wha account i.e.
when he had got the money, what it was that he was expected
to do with it.
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